The biomedical sciences are advancing at a tremendous rate. Some of the most notable recent accomplishments (such as the assembly of the human genome) have depended upon the use of high performance computing and data ...

Case study: Indiana University (IU) ran the first published, validated high-performance computing (HPC) benchmarks on Windows HPC Server and Linux, and found the two perform about the same across applications and cluster ...

The purpose of this document is to introduce researchers to Indiana University’s cyberinfrastructure – to clarify what these facilities make possible, to discuss how to use them and the professional staff available to work ...

Like many large institutions, Indiana University has thousands of desktop computers devoted primarily to running office productivity applications on the Windows operating system, tasks which are necessary but that do not ...

In 2003 legislators approved a plan for I-Light2, an expanded fiber optic network for the State of Indiana. On March 9, 2004 researchers gathered at the IUPUI Conference Center in Indianapolis to discuss how the original ...

A collection of performance benchmarks have been run on an IBM System X iDataPlex cluster using two different operating systems. Windows HPC Server 2008 (WinHPC) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5.4 (RHEL5) are compared using ...

Indiana University demonstrated use of the Lustre high performance parallel file system over an experimental 100 Gbps network made
available as part of the SCinet Research Sandbox at the Supercomputing 2011 conference. ...

The evolution of the cyberinfrastructure which supports scientific research in the US cannot be explained solely by observation of advances in computing hardware. Rather it represents a complex interaction among many ...

The University of Chicago purchased an IBM iDataPlex system as part of the FutureGrid project (National Science Foundation Award 910812: FutureGrid: An Experimental, High-Performance Grid Test-bed, Geoffrey C. Fox, IU, ...

This report lists the activities and outcomes of the collaboration between Research Technologies, a division of University Information Technology Services at Indiana University (IU), and the Center for Information Services ...